Inscription: Inscribed on recto: 'W.H.F. Talbot's Patent No. 1046'. Handwritten on verso: 'Talbot's Duplicate'. Four hand-coloured diagrams depicting the machinery to Talbot's patent for obtaining motive power.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of square with the Hôtel de Ville and neighbouring theatre, 'Pl.III' printed in top right corner, so presumably originally intended for a book illustration. Photoglyphic engraving from original negative possibly by Claude Marie Ferrier. Imprint size 189 x 2...
Sepia wash lithograph of the façade of the church at a slightly oblique angle. Eugene Ostroff (Curator of photography at The National Museum of American History and who visited Lacock Abbey in 1965) has written in the top right corner: 'see 641, 604, 584, 659, 610' with encircled 'EO'.